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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49749)	3/2/2006 7:22:28 AM
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Female foeticide-selective elimination of female foetuses! A crime against humanity The unholy alliance between tradition (son-complex) and technology (ultrasound) is playing havoc with Indian society? Sons are rising, daughters setting. In two major super powers of population demographic growth the ’Sons are rising, daughters setting.’ Sex selection is a violation of law and unethical. But our patriarchal society continues to turn a blind eye towards it or offer perverted excuses to justify its existence. Even the medical community has not protested against the malpractices of its guilty peers. Inspired by the --The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration Millions of young men in Asia won’t be able to find wives. Will they fall in love with war instead? The lost boys of Prof. Albert Macovski are upon us. Twenty years ago, the ultrasound scanning machine came into widespread use in Asia. The invention of Macovski, a Stanford University researcher, the device quickly gave pregnant women a cheap and readily available means to determine the sex of their unborn children. The results, by the million, are now coming to maturity in Bangladesh, China, India, and Taiwan. By choosing to give birth to males—and to abort... By Martin Walker-March/April 2006 cybermusings.blogspot.com